From the grief of lost siblings to the broader social scars of the Famine and the Magdalene laundries, in this dazzling memoir Mc Mahon sketches the evolution of a consciousness – from her conservative 1970s upbringing to 1990s New York, and back to the much-changed Ireland of today. Milk On Motherhood and Madness By: Alice Kinsella Narrated by: Alice Kinsella Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins Try for 0. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present Candid yet lyrical, In Ordinary Time mines the ways that trauma reverberates through time and through individual lives, drawing connections to the events and rhythms of Ireland’s long Celtic, early Christian and Catholic history. Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin PlacesMilk is a raw, unvarnished journey down the mothering rabbit hole The Irish IndependentAlice Kinsella was in.
‘In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History’ by Carmel McMahonġ993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. Wielding a panoply of shattered literary forms, Alice Kinsella expertly depicts the gradual disintegration of a woman into the motherbaby dyad.
A powerful and yet delicate mix of the personal and political, Milk is an unflinching and unique memoir that looks at the experience of motherhood against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland. Alice Kinsella is a young mother, giving birth to her son in her mid-twenties, adrift in a new town and navigating her newly accompanied life. MILK: On Motherhood and Madness by Alice KinsellaĪ map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new motherhood as well as a confronting and often painful examination of the experience of having children in contemporary Ireland. Hear writers Carmel McMahon and Alice Kinsella read from their books ‘In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History’ and ‘MILK: On Motherhood and Madness’. Milk 14. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview.excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.įor additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2023 in music. The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in or scheduled for release in 2023. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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